This is true.
I don't think this is true. From people putting "money where there mouth is"... in 2008, donations from the media were almost
90% to Democrats. Source:
Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network execs, writers, reporters UPDATED! | Washington Examiner
So there is a lot of evidence that people in media from top to bottom lean towards the left. And there was a comprehensive study out of Dartmouth in the 2000s that proved liberal bias, as well as many other such studies since then.
I've got it! I could agree with that, except for one thing.
I started looking at the election results and started pondering things, and all of a sudden, it stood right out to me!
There is an easy explanation for that.
I looked at all the information I could on breakdowns, and tendencies. Pew had some good stuff.
Political Polarization & Media Habits | Pew Research Center
Political Party Affiliation | Pew Research Center
And then I started to get onto it!
What is the biggest difference between journalism of the past, versus journalism of the present? And what is the biggest difference between 'mainstream media' and alternative?
Education. In the past, few reporters started with any specialized training, or higher education, that has totally reversed today. Also, in past, those with advanced education of any kind were far more distinct (fewer), and far more likely to have paid for their own education. In days where most people had to earn by 16, there wasn't the luxury to obtain a college education, so only the rich could really afford one.
As journalism developed from partisan to objective, the ability of the underclasses to attain increasingly higher levels of education expanded. And then to follow that, working as a journalist, required more and more specific credentials, based upon education.
Journalism lost its attachment to the more conservative upper class and followed groups regardless of income or privilige, base upon intellectual ability, skill and talent.
Moving forward to the 2016 Election I took a look at the voting results. If you rate the states and DC by their highest level of academic achievement (per capita) of the states, HRC won 1 through 19 and two more in the top 25. Everything else went to Trump, including the bottom 25 states in advanced degrees per capita.
Ohio - 33 wasn't close as anticipated. The top of the educational strata had really soft numbers.
PA - 20 was much the same way, the soft vote from the top was very evident.
GA - 23 has a lot of college graduates and a fair number of advanced degrees, but it has a low number of total high school graduates. Guess what? Voting in the state played out totally along educational lines! Georgia had a better turn out of their more educated voters, and the state was closer than anticipated.
I am working on an article for another source, and it shows a stark divide in who of what educational level voted for what candidate.
I don't want to sound incendiary, but more educated people have a greater likelihood of not being conservative, I am not talking about traditional Republicans. I am talking about Alt-Right, to unemployed, under-educated, and whites that have economically been passed by.
So if that is what we are discussing, and media comes up, I believe more 'media workers' are more 'liberal' than likely 'Alt-Right', or the Trump base.
In fact, I will take it a step further and say that the Trump campaign sought people out by this one criterion, and focused on them with one message that was a mantra, everything will be wonderful again, and sent mixed messages, misinformation, lies, and all other manner of media 'white noise' out their for everyone else.
Thus Trump got nearly 100% of the under-educated, with whom his message could resonate, without too much resistance, and his campaign sought to disinterest the more educated, which weren't going to be as
likely to buy in as what became his base.
That is why post general election, and post inauguration, there is so much resistance to his message, and he has doubled down on his lies, and ridiculous contentions!
For further on that see Charles Sykes. I understand he has some good information on that!
